Shear Thickening Polishing of Rotary Workpieces with Large Curvature Edges

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

The article entitled “Shear thickening polishing of rotary workpiece with large curvature edge” presents the results of empirical research focused on determining the influence of shear thickening polishing process parameters such as: including abrasive type, abrasive concentration, installation angle, and polishing speed on surface roughness expressed by the Ra and Sa parameters. In addition to quantitative assessment, the authors also evaluated surface quality using qualitative methods by evaluating surface photographs. I evaluate the article positively, I recommend making minor corrections, which are mainly to increase the readability of the text:

 1. Row 142: what is the “polishing groove” mentioned?

2.  Table 1 and Figure 4: These are closely related; consider placing them side by side for ease of reference.

3.  Order of Figures and Table: It would be more logical to present them in the order: Figure 3, Figure 4, then Table 1.4. In Fig3, mark all possible parameters related to experimental conditions (Table 1).

5. Provide a literature reference for Table 2.

6. The word “Angle” inside the sentence is unnecessarily capitalized.

7. A space should be used between the number and the unit.

8. “Schematic of” in figure captions should be linguistically corrected.

9. Fig3b: typo “Driving MOTER”. It is not clear where the "Rotation axis" is.

10. Rows 173 and 179 contain references to wrong drawings.

11. There is a lack of relevant information about the method of measuring radius, Ra and Sa values. The names of the equipment, software, measurement parameters (for Sa the measurement area), filters used (type and values) should be given.

12. It is worth to measure and provide the values of radii after treatment, at least for the optimal polishing parameters identified.

13. The values on the color scale of 3D topography are unreadable.

14. Row 355 - term “naked eye” is a bit colloquial, better would be: unaided eye.

15. Figure 25 - comment more on the results in the text. Enlarge figures so that all descriptions are legible.

16. In the graphs showing 2D roughness profiles, the descriptions of the axes are too small (unreadable) and units are missing. 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

 

• The study focuses primarily on laboratory settings. Scaling up for industrial applications might introduce new challenges such as equipment durability and cost-efficiency. What will be the next research? 

• How can the findings of this study be applied or scaled to industrial applications requiring ultra-precision polishing of complex geometries?

• Detailed comparisons with other advanced polishing methods, such as magnetorheological or abrasive flow techniques, could further contextualize the STP’s advantages has to be performed.

• How does the shear thickening polishing (STP) method address the challenges of achieving uniform polishing on rotary workpieces with large curvature edges compared to traditional methods?

• The research establishes STP as a promising alternative to traditional polishing methods for complex geometries. It paves the way for further development in precision manufacturing techniques, offering a balance of efficiency, adaptability, and surface quality.

   

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